UpTeq NFC high-end SIM to enable NFC-readiness for mass deployment of mobile contactless services Orange, France's leading mobile operator with over 27 million subscribers, and Gemalto (Euronext ...

Gemalto launched the UpTeq NFC SIM vault to offer mobile operators higher security and bigger return on investment from NFC rollouts. The new SIM has attained security certifications from independent ...

The GSMA has been pushing for years to have NFC-enabled SIMs as an industry standard in mobile. At this year's Mobile Asia Congress, it got its wish when 45 heavy-hitting telcos committed to making ...

COLOMBES, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oberthur Technologies, one of the world’s largest providers of security and identification solutions and services based on smart card technologies, today announced ...

[Nils Pipenbrinck] has been working on a very interesting problem. The SIM card in your cellphone talks to the contactless near-field communication (NFC) chip through a cool protocol that we’d never ...

Mobile security vendor Gemalto’s UpTeq NFC high-end SIM has been certified by global payment networks America Express, MasterCard and Visa. The UpTeq NFC high-end SIM will now support mobile ...

Singaporean incumbent telecommunications provider Singtel has announced the upcoming launch of its Transit NFC SIM, enabling customers to pay for train and bus trips using smartphones with near-field ...

LIVE FROM THE GSMA’S NFC & MOBILE MONEY SUMMIT, NEW YORK: Lack of mass-market NFC handsets, complex SIM card upgrades and insufficient experience in making and accepting transactions among the public ...

Dubai - The special NFC (Near Field Communication)-enabled SIM cards that are required to make public transport payments though mobile phones are now available to the public. The NFC payment system, ...

While most players in the mobile phone industry would agree that near-field communication is an up-and-coming technology, some remain divided over how it should be deployed. Near-field communication ...

Subscriber Identity Modules, or SIMs, might be on the verge of extinction. SIMs themselves are getting smarter, now capable of doing far more than hold your cell number and a phonebook of your friends ...

The US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple today (via PatentlyApple) detailing how a future iPhone could potentially utilize a virtual SIM card that integrates NFC ...